EDITORIAL. 911 



The purchase price of the estate was consideruhly in excess of the 

 amount of the appropriation, but the city of Mayaguez has assumed 

 the remainder. 



At present most of the Umd is in g-i-ass and pasture, with some 

 scattered fruit and a few acres of coffee. The place is well provided 

 with buildings, which will probablj^ suffice for the present needs of the 

 station, and the whole tract is fenced. The Mayaguez Kiver bounds 

 it on one side, and running water is to be found in a number of places 

 over the farm, making it especially adapted to stock raising. Adjoin- 

 ing the new site is the old agronomic station which was estal)lished by 

 ihe Spanish Government and abandoned in 1897. The latter is now 

 under the control of the Quartermaster's Department of the Army, 

 but efforts will be made to have the land added to that just purchased. 



The region in which the station will be permanently located is gen- 

 erally recognized over the island as the best for diversified agriculture, 

 and it is sufficiently near the larger cane and coffee regions to permit 

 of cooperative experiments being undertaken under the immediate 

 supervision of the station officers. 



Agriculture in the New World is the title of a pamphlet recently 

 received, which records the observations made b}^ Prof. F. B. Smith, 

 of the Southeastern Agricultural College at Wye, on a visit to the 

 United States and Canada. Professor Smith will be remembered at 

 many of the colleges and stations where he visited during the summer 

 of 1900. 



The report gives a review of the systems of agricultural education 

 and experimentation in the United States and Canada, and descrip- 

 tions of the colleges and stations which were visited, together with a 

 discussion of some of the features of the agricultural instruction and 

 station work in this countrv. It is written in a vigorous and enthusi- 

 astic style, and is an unusually satisfactory and accurate presentation 

 of the aims, methods, and work of the American institutions for agri- 

 cultural education and experimentation. The writer evidenth' caught 

 the spirit of American institutions, and, while he occasionally finds 

 things to criticise, he has not been sparing in his appreciation and 

 praise. 



Speaking of this Department, he sa3's: '"The more 1 learned of this 

 wonderful Department the more was 1 impressed with the amount of 

 work which it was performing and with the downright practical serv- 

 ices which it was rendering to the farmers of the country." He has 

 the following to say regarding the experiments and publications of the 

 stations: "'There are several points in this connection which T should 

 like to bear testimony to, and they are, firstly, the care and exactitude 

 with which the experiments are conducted. Referring more particu- 



